A New Era of Resistance

(March 6, 2017; Kira Cochrane, The Guardian): “Before the Women’s Marches took place, the day after Trump’s inauguration, there were suggestions they would be pointless and ineffective — nothing more than a nice day out. On 21 January, women and men marched on all seven continents (in Antarctica, a placard proclaimed ‘Penguins march for peace’). With almost 700 marches across the world, and an estimated 4.5 million marchers in all, this was among the biggest human-rights demonstrations in history…. Signs of resistance are arising everywhere.”